men who smoke 20+ a day are more likely to go bald, see the article here

you'll feel better about yourself: smokers who quit are happier, see the report here

What risks will you avoid?

Most people know that smoking is linked to cancer and other health risks, here are a few statistics you may not be so familiar with.

Smoking 1.5 packs a day gives a dose of radiation of 60 - 1650 mSv per year, the same as 300 chest x-rays. To put this in perspective, living near a nuclear power plant gives a dose of only 0.0001 mSv per year [source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tobacco]

We do not know exactly what is in a cigarette because the full 'recipe' is known only by the tobacco companies. Just like Colonel Sanders' 'blend of 11 herbs and spices' for chicken, it's a closely guarded commercial secret.

We do know there are over 4,000 different chemicals, many of which are harmful or even lethal at the right levels. For example, if you were to extract the nicotine from just one cigarette and inject it directly into a vein (instead of smoking it) you would be dead within seconds [source: Roger Allen, 'Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy', publisher Crown House Publishing]

Sidestream smoke (also called 'second hand' or 'environmental' smoke) includes both exhaled smoke and smoke which is emitted from a cigarette at rest (e.g. left in an ashtray). It is breathed in by those sharing the environment with the smoker (passive smoking). Sidestream smoke is thought by some researchers to be even more dangerous than mainstream smoke [source: Schick, S; Glantz S (December 2005).'Philip Morris toxicological experiments with fresh sidestream smoke: more toxic than mainstream smoke'. Tobacco Control 14 (6): 396–404]

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